Gaming on a Macbook

The only game I tried on my MacBook Pro early 2011 13" via steam was Counterstrike Source. It worked perfectly. Even though my MacBook only has a HD3000 graphics, CS ran perfectly smooth.

I tried iRacing on my MacBook Air 2013 11" and it also worked fine. I didn't mess with graphics settings and just ran the defaults as setup automatically by the installer. It ran smooth with ok quality. It's no way as pretty looking as on my Windows desktop PC but more than playable. Was getting around 60 FPS if I remember correctly.
 
vinodh said:
The only game I tried on my MacBook Pro early 2011 13" via steam was Counterstrike Source. It worked perfectly. Even though my MacBook only has a HD3000 graphics, CS ran perfectly smooth.

I tried iRacing on my MacBook Air 2013 11" and it also worked fine. I didn't mess with graphics settings and just ran the defaults as setup automatically by the installer. It ran smooth with ok quality. It's no way as pretty looking as on my Windows desktop PC but more than playable. Was getting around 60 FPS if I remember correctly.
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CS runs on surface pro maxxed out, or anything actually. :erm:
 
vinodh said:
The only game I tried on my MacBook Pro early 2011 13" via steam was Counterstrike Source. It worked perfectly. Even though my MacBook only has a HD3000 graphics, CS ran perfectly smooth.

I tried iRacing on my MacBook Air 2013 11" and it also worked fine. I didn't mess with graphics settings and just ran the defaults as setup automatically by the installer. It ran smooth with ok quality. It's no way as pretty looking as on my Windows desktop PC but more than playable. Was getting around 60 FPS if I remember correctly.
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That's good. CS should be more resource intensive than DOTA 2 i presume. All my other games are small in comparison
 
I've played loads of games on my mac, if its supported in steam you'll be able to play it. If you're wondering about performance then rather check out benchmarks on the gfx card to get an idea of what to expect.

The most demanding games I have played are probably guild wars 2, new tomb raider, witcher 2 - all totally playable on my macs 6770M with medium settings.
 
Mac rocks. I bought and installed my favorite 3D design app, it outperforms the Windoze version. Same CPU.
I am finished with desktop PC and Microsoft operating systems
 
I Just bought a late 2013 mac 13" mid level model and play L4D and its perfect!

If you ONLY game, then IMO get windows and build your pc , mac is a waste, but if you have other plans too then Mac for the win!

Cheers
 
I play a few games on my PC, all of them, run on Mac anyway. Hell they run on Linux too with no mods or config.
I also do work on my machine so it's Mac or bust, especially since the Mac can do what the Windows 7 crap cannot do, even with VMware installed. Additionally all the dev tools I use are going to Mac only, seems people are fed up with Windows
 
my MacBook pro outdoes my windows desktop. lack of numeric keypad is the only annoying issue, but if I bothered I could solve that :D
 
Aqua_lung said:
If you have a windows PC you can now stream windows only games to your mac with in-home streaming.
http://store.steampowered.com/streaming/
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After I read your post, I installed Steam on my MacBook Air and played RaceRoom Experience DTM streamed from my Windows desktop. Worked amazingly well. Got almost zero lag and this was over wifi. Installation was straight forward: Updated the steam client and made sure I was logged in on Steam on both computers. Only thing to remember is that the Windows machine must be logged in to Windows and not at the lock screen. The Mac Steam client auto detected the Windows machine and that was that. Very impressive. I'm now tempted to buy South Park: The Stick of Truth...
 
vinodh said:
After I read your post, I installed Steam on my MacBook Air and played RaceRoom Experience DTM streamed from my Windows desktop. Worked amazingly well. Got almost zero lag and this was over wifi. Installation was straight forward: Updated the steam client and made sure I was logged in on Steam on both computers. Only thing to remember is that the Windows machine must be logged in to Windows and not at the lock screen. The Mac Steam client auto detected the Windows machine and that was that. Very impressive. I'm now tempted to buy South Park: The Stick of Truth...
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SWEET! :D
 
Got a pro, currently gaming f12012. I was trying to game f12013 and it cried about more hardware.


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Have a MBP 13 from mid 2012 playing D3 with HD4000 graphics. My Alienware M18X has blown both gpu's over the last 2 years so I turn to my Mac for my gaming as it allows to do a bit of gaming in the bed while using the Alienware as my media centre now.

Would love some more hardware but its ok for for gaming. Hearthstone rocks on a mac.
 
With steam sharing you can add non-steam games too. Just add the exe and it'll show up and be streamable - for Origin/Blizzard games etc.

You can even add notepad.exe, then once opened press F1 and you'll be in your Windows desktop - pretty handy.
 
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